Do we agree that such health and moral issues should be regulated by states rather than fedgov, per the Tenth Amendment?
The states and local governments are closer to the problems of their constituents than a distant federal entity and are better at crafting solutions unique to their citizens and their individual geographic situations. I am a strong 10th amendment supporter. If DC and it’s governing mechanisms were suddenly erased...it would be each state that would have to take emergency control to martial the populace to communal unity and action(no not communal in the “socialism” sense!) and reassure them in such a time of crisis. And the state legislatures need to get control of senatorial appointments back, via a new amendment...convention of states or other means!(which would invigorate state power again) I think a good compromise would be 2 senators from each state legislature and one voted “at large by the people”....!
Yeah...I would say we are in agreement on the 10th amendment! Similarly, if such a view on the 10th amendment had been in vogue in 1918...the Republican congress of 1918 should never have brought the 18th amendment up for a vote! The “bully bully” Republican progressivism as popularized by Teddy Roosevelt was still very much in vogue...expanded Federal government control for the good of all was all the rage in both parties... though the southern Democrats of the time were still the more “apartheid” party at that time!